The night of the iguana (drama)
The Night of the Iguana (original title The Night of the Iguana ) is a play written by Tennessee Williams about a former pastor working as a tour guide, who gets into trouble because of a 16-year-old girl who is adolescent and whose amorous intentions he resists.
The play premiered on December 28, 1961 at the Royale Theater , now the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater , on Broadway and was Williams' last great success there. Two years later, the play was filmed under the same title by the American director John Huston with a large cast of stars (including Richard Burton , Ava Gardner , Deborah Kerr ) (see The Night of the Iguana (film) ). When it was made into the film, the roles of Nazis as members of the travel company that appeared in the stage version were omitted. There was a remake in 2001.
German-language premieres
- October 1962: by Oscar Fritz Schuh , director: Charles Regnier , leading roles: Gisela Holzinger, Grete Mosheim , Wolfgang Kieling ; Cologne theater
- October 1962: Directed by Willy Maertens , roles: Heinz Bennent , Gisela Mattishent , Inge Meysel , picture Erich Grandeit ; Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
expenditure
- The night of the iguana. Portrait of a Madonna. And four more one-act plays. Translated from Franz Hoellering , Hans Sahl . Fischer TB 547, Frankfurt 1963. As a single text, ibid. 1999 ISBN 3-596-11985-5
- Complete Text in: " Theater heute . A magazine for drama, opera, ballet." Born 4. No. 3 March 1963. Red. Henning Rischbieter
Web links
- "Man seeks human contact." The female characters in T. Williams' "The Night of the Iguana", (PDF; 826 kB) by Sonja Streit, Master's thesis at the University of Vienna , Theater, Film and Media Studies, 2010
- Review of the piece on the occasion of the first performance , in Die Zeit , author abbreviation jac, October 26, 1962
Individual evidence
- ^ Internet Broadway Database : The Night of the Iguana
- ↑ 17 wagons full of cotton * Speak to me like the rain * Entering the property is prohibited * Lord Byron's love letter